Louise
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You know, she came up and said, like, give the energy credits.
Working people are struggling as well.
Give a โฌ500 disability bonus for people with, you know, a care in full-time.
That's reasonable.
But this government... Like, Michael Martin turned back and said, oh, well, we're spending money on infrastructure.
Like that's not putting food in the fridge.
It's not putting the electricity on.
There's such a disconnect that I'm seeing from our live reality and the government messaging that's coming out.
It's like they don't have any clue.
They're just clueless.
Well, I mean, like, which carer can take their kid, like, you know, out and blockade a street for six days?
They absolutely know we can't.
Like, we only recently asked for the 400 euro, like, fuel credit, and they refused.
The Irish Wheelchair Association went in and gave...
gave a talk to the government to say how desperate things were and they refused them.
Like, this is people that went on a march in wheelchairs.
Like, I mean, and they said no.
too much money now they need to keep it for that rainy day no they've got listen they have a nine billion euro surplus a nine billion euro surplus we are not broke this country is not broke lots of other european countries are coming up with packages for their citizens and especially for the elderly and the carers yeah like they can extend that fuel allowance and just extend it just extend it until the end of the year and see where we're at